Using nationally representative linked employer-employee data for Britain in 2004 and 2011 we find school staff are … accounted for by the occupations school employees undertake and perceptions of job quality. School employees are also more … committed to their organization than non-school employees, a difference that remains large and statistically significant having …

exclusion of poorly performing pupils. In England there were two phases of academy school introduction, the first in the 2000s … being a school improvement programme for poorly performing schools, the second a mass academisation programme from 2010 for …

schools and all pupils within these schools to analyse the role of the school in accounting for this variation. We analyse a … and attainment levels at the end of secondary schooling. We examine indicators that were the focus of the school … account for a minority of the variance in pupil attainment, and the extent of the variation accounted for by the school is …

among schools and other workplaces. However, the types of practices that improve school performance are different from those …

We explore responses of Australian school principals to the introduction of test score reporting via the My School …) the My School website launch. We find scarce evidence of meaningful adjustments over time, but we do find evidence of … significantly different policies and practices across school groups. …

This paper analyzes the impact of longer school days on student achievement in Colombia. To identify the impact of … longer schools days, this study exploits plausibly exogenous within school variation in the length of the school day. Using … test score data from 5th and 9th graders in 2002, 2005, and 2009, along with school administrative data, this research uses …

eligible to start school at a relatively older age. In turn, these students are 2 percentage points more likely to first attend … the increase in the high school graduation rate of relatively younger students attributable to the combination of school …Extant research on school entry and compulsory schooling laws finds that these policies increase the high school …

We estimate preferences for school tracks in upper secondary education in Hungary. We consider travel time, school SES … composition, school level (in terms of peer quality) and school quality (in terms of added value). We find that students have … stronger preferences for school SES composition and school level, rather than school quality (which may be harder to observe …

This paper evaluates the diffusion of peer effects on academic achievement of 4th grade students in the Brazilian … public school system. Using data from Prova Brasil 2013, the identification strategy builds on the use of an IV approach, in … alternatively, in each quarter). The idea behind the instruments is that compulsory school enrolment laws generate variation in the …

study the effect of introducing earlier grades in compulsory school on child mental health in Sweden. To do so, we exploit a … year earlier grades are more likely to be diagnosed with depression or anxiety by the end of compulsory school, controlling …